Practical Glossary

Web accessibility refers to the practice of making pages on the Internet accessible to all users, especially those with disabilities.

AFNIC

AFNIC is the registry for the Internet domain names .fr and .re

AGESSA

French association in charge of authors social security.

AJAX

A scripting technique for silently loading new data from the server. Although AJAX scripts commonly use the soon to be standardized XMLHttpRequest object, they could also use a hidden iframe or frame. An AJAX script is useless by itself. It also requires a DOM Scripting component to embed the received data in the document.

Appletalk

A networking protocol developed by Apple Computer for communication between Apple Computer products and other computers.

Citrix Presentation Server (formerly Citrix MetaFrame Server) is a remote access/application publishing product that allows people to connect to applications available from central servers. One advantage of publishing applications using Presentation Server is that it lets people connect to these applications remotely, from their homes, airport Internet kiosks, smart phones, and other devices outside of their corporate networks.

CNIL

Independent French administrative authority whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data.

CRM

Customer Relationship Management

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets are used to describe presentation of a structured document in HTML, XHTML or XML.

Datamatrix

Two-dimensional matrix barcode consisting of black and white square modules arranged in either a square or rectangular pattern. The information to be encoded can be text or raw data.

DAVDSI

Bill reforming French copyright law, mostly in order to implement the 2001 European directive on copyright (known as EUCD), which in turn implements a 1996 WIPO treaty.

Ergonomics

Ergonomics is the study of optimizing the interface between human beings, and the designed objects and environments they interact with.

FTP

FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network. Specifically, FTP is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). There are two computers involved in an FTP transfer: a server and a client.

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating World Wide Web pages.